Our industry is constantly changing, and with new leadership at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, expect even more scrutiny of the real estate sector, and that includes title settlement services. In this episode, FNF Senior Vice-President for National Agency Operations Chuck Cain provides an in-depth analysis on the issues and concerns the CFPB will pursue and what industry professionals need to be aware of.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the launch of Task Force KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement task force dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed, along with allies and partners, in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine..

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Fifteen years ago, a 23,000 square foot mansion in Washington D.C.’s swanky Embassy Row was bought for $15 million in cash. The purchase was made through a Delaware-registered shell company, a corporation that existed on paper, but had no real physical presence.

Opera lover Alberto Vilar said he attended about 100 opera performances a year. He had a front-row seat at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, saying he wanted to see the conductor and pit orchestra, as well as the singers on the stage. Co-founder of investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors Vilar became a multi-millionaire in the Dot.com boom of the 1990s.

The view of a city from an owner’s property becomes obstructed by the growth of a tree on the neighbor’s property. Local ordinance creates a right for property owners to restore views lost due to tree growth on neighboring property. The owner asks the neighbor to remove the excess growth, which the neighbor refuses.

A high-level understanding of opinion letters is a useful tool for anyone working in commercial real estate (CRE)—including businesspeople and next generation attorneys. Guest hosts Daniel Evans and Jay Wardlaw, co-chairs of Seyfarth’s Real Estate Finance practice, are joined by Cameron Weil, counsel in Seyfarth’s Real Estate department, to discuss the foundational basics of delivering opinion letters to lenders in CRE transactions.

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Over the past several years I’ve been on the sidelines of a sad affair about a landlocked property that has an access easement but is still inaccessible. The assessed owners—are being denied use of their land. It is a matter of old deeds with multiple tracts that leave a gap where the access easement should connect. All of this translates to both unmarketable and uninsurable property.

A Kenton County judge’s decision on the property dispute between neighbors over ownership of a garage in Covington’s Historic Licking Riverside district has now been appealed to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The contentious lawsuit is between the neighbors, Marc Tischbein and Peggy Rankin who own the Main House at 420-422 Riverside Drive and Scott and Lorrie Hill who own the Carriage House at 109 Shelby. Both properties are at the confluence of the Licking and Ohio Rivers.

In two recent decisions, the Second and Fourth Circuits weighed in on the scope of Regulation X’s (Reg. X) catch-all provision for notices of error (NOEs).

ALTA created a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan template to help member companies develop a structured strategy to prepare for, identify, respond and recover from cybersecurity incidents. ALTA’s Information Security Work Group developed the template based off an approach by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which has established guidelines to help companies implement strategies to safeguard against cyber threats.

Aggie Reynolds, a 73-year-old resident of Flagaman in St Elizabeth, is a happy and proud landowner today, having received a certificate of title for her property under the National Land Agency's (NLA) Systematic Land Registration (SLR) titling programme.

The Supreme Court reiterated that a suit for declaration based on adverse possession having matured into ownership is maintainable. In this case, the plaintiff filed a suit for declaration of title pleading that the adverse possession on the suit property granted him certain rights. The Trial court allowed the application filed by defendant under Order VII Rule 11, Code of Civil Procedure and rejected the plaint.

Women have an illustrious history in the real estate industry — but it’s not a very long history. In fact, in the U.S., female aspiring homeowners weren’t even allowed to finance purchases on their own until the 1970s. Thankfully, women have achieved high levels of real estate–related success since then, both as homeowners and as industry professionals. Here are some of the most interesting stats, o

Red Emmerson grew up in a broken home. A few months before graduation, Red was on his own. He had been expelled. His father lived in California and his mother in the Alaska Territory. So he hired on as a hand at a ranch owned by Sam Smith, a Native American. Sam nicknamed him Red. The following year, he graduated from Omak High School. College was definitely not an option. At 19, all he had was a keen mind, an eye for opportunity, and a limitless capacity for hard work. Turns out that’s all he needed.

For agents interested in growing their business by expanding into multiple states, we’re here to make the process simple and profitable. We offer you one point of contact to streamline your options and solutions.

Queen Victoria was definitely not amused. Whenever she travelled from her estate on the Isle of Wight to her castle at Balmoral, she encountered the inconvenience of twice changing trains, once at Basingstoke and again at Gloucester. She had no choice: even royalty was obliged to mind the gap between railway tracks of different widths. spent the winter at camp.

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The pretty young women with the dark curls was searching for her lost brother. That wasn’t unusual in the summer of 1863. The American Civil War had been raging for two years. Hundreds of thousands had died and the chaos of ongoing battles meant that family members on both sides of the conflict went without news from their loved ones, living or dead, for weeks and months at a time. 

Known as Hawa Mahal in Hindi, the Palace of the Winds was constructed in 1799 for Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh as part of the women’s section of the enormous City Palace at the center of Jaipur [India].

At some point in the stretch of days between the start of the pandemic’s third year and the feared launch of world war three, a new phrase entered the zeitgeist, a mysterious harbinger of an age to come: people were going “goblin mode”.

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